How The Information built a successful tech news operation
Sarah Scire of Nieman Lab interviewed Jessica Lessin, the co-founder and CEO of tech news site The Information. Here is an excerpt: SCIRE: If I can ask you to generalize on what you’ve seen as an advisor, why does a new news organization succeed? Why do some fail? LESSIN: I think every organization I’ve seen produce really […]
How The Information gets people to pay for a subscription
Recode’s Peter Kafka interviewed The Information CEO and founder Jessica Lessin about how she has gotten people to subscribe to the seven-year-old technology news site. The Information has in the “tens of thousands” of subscribers, who pay $399 a year, and has a staff of more than 40. It expects to add 10 to 20 […]
The Information hires Sisco to cover antitrust stories
Tech news site The Information has hired Josh Sisco to cover antitrust regulation. He will start Feb. 8. Sisco is a senior correspondent at The Capitol Forum leading non-merger antitrust coverage, focusing on government investigations and policy. He joined The Capitol Forum after five years at MLex, most recently as chief U.S. correspondent, where he covered litigation […]
The Information hires O’Regan to cover Facebook, social media
Tech news site The Information has hired Sylvia Varnham O’Regan to cover Facebook and social media companies. She will start in March. O’Regan currently covers development and finance for The Real Deal in New York. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times and other publications. […]
The Information seeks an AR/VR reporter
AR/VR technologies are having a major moment—and just getting started. And while mainstream tech coverage concentrates on major announcements in the sector, the pace of industry developments is rapid. Lots of big news is, largely, uncharted. The Information is looking for a reporter to launch a new AR/VR newsletter, defining coverage of these platforms for […]
The Information seeks a reporter to cover Amazon Web Services and the cloud
Amid this unprecedented boom in enterprise technology companies, there’s one company that sets the standard and influences the market the most. Amazon’s AWS is, in many ways, the cloud, and The Information is looking to expand our industry-leading enterprise technology coverage with a reporter to focus on this major force, its power, competitors, strategy, leaders […]
The Information seeks a crypto reporter
The Information is looking for an enterprising reporter to cover blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and to put their mark on the coverage by leading a regular newsletter on the subjects. There are few topics as opaque, fast-changing and, over the long term, significant to the technology industry as cryptocurrencies and blockchain. While crypto asset prices […]
The Information seeks a reporter to cover the creator economy
The Information is seeking a reporter to cover the booming creator economy, made up of the tens of millions of individuals building major businesses off technology platforms and the ecosystems around them. The wealth generated by individual creators and the ways Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and dozens of other services are driving that growth is a […]
How The Information built a business on scoops and deep dives
Cynthia Littleton of Variety interviewed Jessica Lessin, the founder and editor in chief of tech news site The Information, about her success. Littleton writes, “While working as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal nearly a decade ago, she saw an opening in the journalism market for more thoughtful longform reporting. The decision to follow her […]
The Information to launch opinion section, hires Delaney
Tech news site The Information plans to launch an opinion section next month and has hired former Quartz editor in chief Kevin Delaney as a senior editor, reports Kerry Flynn of CNN Business. Flynn reports, “Jessica Lessin, founder and EIC of The Information, told me her site will launch an Opinion section in January: ‘If you look at Opinion across […]
